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"Hallo! what are you doing here?" asked the ex-second-mate of the Nan-Shan, shaking hands hurriedly. "Standing by for a job chance worth taking got a quiet hint," explained the man with the broken hat, in jerky, apathetic wheezes. The second shook his fist again at the Nan-Shan.
One of the first letters I had from him, after he had begun his reading tour, was dated from the Westminster Hotel in New York, on the 15th of January, 1868. It was a delightful welcome and did me a world of good. We have left off referring to the hateful subject, except in emphatic sniffs on my part, convulsive wheezes, and resounding sneezes. The Philadelphia audience ready and bright.
He is fed out of all shape and comfort; his eyes are nearly strained out of his head; he wheezes with corpulency, and cannot walk without great difficulty.
You know the old parody on 'Lives of Great Men All Remind Us, don't you?" and she went on to quote: "'Lives of imbeciles remind us It may some day come to pass, We shall see one staring at us From our trusty looking-glass!" "Shucks!" responded Jess. "You'll get to be as bad as Bobby Hargrew with those old wheezes. But, did you ever see such a girl before?" "No," admitted Laura.
Somehow, one never expects a clock of this kind to keep time it is bought as an ornament and if it runs at all it wheezes, or gasps, or makes a dreadful noise, and invariably stops at half-past three. I am such a crank about good clocks that I take my own with me, even on a railway train. I think I have the smallest clock in the world which strikes the hours.
He is permanently bluer from that hour, and constantly wheezes to himself, his lobster eyes starting out of his head, 'Damme, Sir, the woman's a born idiot! And the ruined man. How does he pass the hours, alone? 'Let him remember it in that room, years to come! He did remember it. It was heavy on his mind now; heavier than all the rest. 'Let him remember it in that room, years to come!
"'Cheese it, you little cuss! I whispered in his ear, 'or I'll break every rib in your poor old chest! I came in on him a trifle, Just to show him what I could do if I tried. "'Nuff! he wheezes. 'Quit. 'Nuff. "'Go up and congratulate 'em, I whispered again. "'I won't, says he. 'Ouch! Yes, I will! I will! So up he goes, grinding his teeth. "'I wish you every happiness, he grunts.
Whiskers," said Daddy Grasshopper. "I wish you would all try being kind to him," suggested Dr. Whiskers. "I am going to see him now. He was very decent to me." "Good-morning, Simon!" greeted Dr. Whiskers. "Wheezes all gone?" "No, but I'm better," replied Simon shortly. "He's a lot better, Doctor," said Dinah.
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